Wireless network changes to limited connectivity randomly

I'm having this problem with wireless netwoking on my laptop. All was working
fine when I reformated Vista and reinstalled the correct drivers from the
Acer website for my laptop. (Which is suspect is where the problem might lie)
After a random period of time the connection changes to limited connectivity
and completely freezes. I cannot open network connections or view the status
at all, however everything else appears to work fine. I have to restart it at
this stage but instead of taking the usual 5 seconds to power down it takes
about 3 minutes after the connection issue. I've noticed this occurs most
when I, for example, am downloading a large file and I leave the laptop
unoccupied for more than 20 minutes or so.

Any help would be much appreciated.

PS I have another computer linked to the router and it works 100%.
Also...I've noticed I rarely get 'Excellent' signals from the router since
the reformat even when in the same room as the router. Cheers again.

Sounds like incompatible issue. These links may help,

Vista incompatible issuesVista Incompatible issues. 1. Some switches or
routers may not compatible with Vista - Solutions: upgrade the firmware,
disable the IPv6, re-configure the ...
www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistacompatible.htm

Windows Vista Update and downloadThis update may fix some DHCP issue -
The default gateway setting is lost when you wake a Windows Vista-based
computer from sleep ...
http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums...29ccc c3f07ce



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"Jon" <Voyager@jon44w.com> wrote in message
news:594CFB83-460B-471D-8C08-ED295F1643DB@microsoft.com...
> I'm having this problem with wireless netwoking on my laptop. All was
> working
> fine when I reformated Vista and reinstalled the correct drivers from the
> Acer website for my laptop. (Which is suspect is where the problem might
> lie)
> After a random period of time the connection changes to limited
> connectivity
> and completely freezes. I cannot open network connections or view the
> status
> at all, however everything else appears to work fine. I have to restart it
> at
> this stage but instead of taking the usual 5 seconds to power down it
> takes
> about 3 minutes after the connection issue. I've noticed this occurs most
> when I, for example, am downloading a large file and I leave the laptop
> unoccupied for more than 20 minutes or so.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> PS I have another computer linked to the router and it works 100%.
> Also...I've noticed I rarely get 'Excellent' signals from the router since
> the reformat even when in the same room as the router. Cheers again.